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Sunday, 9 December 2012

MEXICO CITY, December 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The First Chamber of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice has ruled
unanimously that a law of the state of Oaxaca defining marriage as a
union between one man and one woman is “unconstitutional,” claiming that
“it offends the auto-determination of people and the right to free
development of their personality.”
The ruling is the first step in the process of creating a precedent
that would be binding on the whole federal court system, and could
ultimately mandate the creation of homosexual “marriage” throughout
Mexico’s 31 states.
Currently, homosexual “marriage” is only officially recognized in
Mexico’s ultra-leftist Federal District, also known as Mexico City,
where the killing of the unborn on demand is legal and state subsidized
during the first twelve weeks of pregnancy as well.
However, the unanimity of the ruling, which included conservative
judge Jorge Mario Pardo in addition to the two others making up the
chamber’s tribunal, does not bode well for the future of marriage in
Mexico.
Although the current ruling applies only to the particular case
brought by a homosexual couple, two more such rulings will create a
precedent that is binding on all federal judges throughout the country,
effectively imposing homosexual unions in every state.
Article 143 of Oaxaca’s civil code defines marriage as “a civil
contract celebrated between only one man and one woman, who unite to
perpetuate the species.” The law was cited by the state’s civil registry
as the basis for denying a “marriage” to a lesbian couple in 2011, who
appealed to the federal judicial system, joined by two other couples.
A lower federal court ruled against the statute in August of this
year, but the case was taken up by the Supreme Court, delaying the
ruling’s enforcement.
As a result of the ruling, the state of Oaxaca’s Civil Registry has
been order to register the marriages of the three couples, reports
Mexico’s El Informador.
The ruling creates “a new form of activism where political convincing
or favors are no longer necessary,” said Alex Ali Mendez Diaz, attorney
for the Front for the Respect and Recognition of Sexual Diversity.